The Tropical managed Forest Observatory (TmFO) network focuses on the resilience of managed tropical forests. TmFO includes 20 institutions linked by a collaborative agreement signed in November 2017. The observatory brings together 30 experimental sites set up either by the CIRAD or by its partners in 12 countries in the humid tropics of the Amazon (Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela), Africa (Ivory Coast, Gabon, Central African Republic) and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia). The data from these sites make it possible to regularly monitor the dynamics of forest stands after logging. Some sites, e.g. Paracou in French Guiana, Tapajos in the Brazilian Amazon or Mbaïki in the Central African Republic, have been in existence for more than 30 years and provide data of exceptional quality for (i) analysing the dynamics of forest recovery after logging and (ii) estimating how ongoing global changes are altering these dynamics. The 24 sites include a total of 536 permanent plots representing a total inventoried area of 1193 hectares where each tree, from 10 or 20 cm dbh and above, is monitored, on average, every 2-5 years.
CELOS (the Center for Agricultural Research) in Suriname, CIFOR (the Center for International Forestry Research), CIRAD (the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development); Embrapa (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), ESALQ Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) University of Sao Paulo, FOERDIA (Forestry and Environment Research Development and Innovation Agency), FRIM (Forest Research Institute of Malaysia), Hiroshima University, IBIF (Instituto Boliviano de Investigaciones Forestales), IIAP (Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana), IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), IIC(the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development), LIPI (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia, the Indonesian Institute of Sciences), ONF (Office National des Forêts, Département RDI, Guyane), SLU (the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), the University of Aberdeen, theUniversity of Florida and Wageningen University, ONF-I
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logging, tropical forests,
Tropical species